Debian bug report logs - #954
Tin looks in wrong place for smail

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From: iwj10@cus.cam.ac.uk (Ian Jackson)
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Subject: Re: Bug#954: Tin looks in wrong place for smail

Andrew Howell writes ("Bug#954: Tin looks in wrong place for smail"):
> When mailing someone an article or replying to an article in mail
> tin tries to use /usr/bin/smail. smail is in /usr/sbin. It's also
> debatable whether it should even use smail. I think it should be
> using sendmail as smail installs links for sendmail, /usr/lib/sendmail
> and /usr/sbin/sendmail.

See the file `mailers.txt' availabe in private/project/standards
(perhaps debian/doc/standards or something by now).

It says that you should use the FSSTND-compliant location to call your
MTA, which is /usr/sbin/sendmail.

Ian.

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Package: tin
Version: 1.30b-3

When mailing someone an article or replying to an article in mail
tin tries to use /usr/bin/smail. smail is in /usr/sbin. It's also
debatable whether it should even use smail. I think it should be
using sendmail as smail installs links for sendmail, /usr/lib/sendmail
and /usr/sbin/sendmail.
 
Andrew

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